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Contents

January 11, 2001 • Volume 48, Number 1

  • Pete Hamill

    Lars e-edition

  • John Updike

    Lear, Far and Near e-edition

    Edward Lear and the Art of Travel catalog of the exhibition by Scott Wilcox, with contributions by Eva Bowerman, Clay Dean, Morna O'Neill, Stephen Vella, and Emily Weeks.

    Edward Lear and the Art of Travel an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 20, 2000–January 14, 2001

  • Geoffrey O’Brien

    Seven Years in the Life

    The Beatles Anthology the Beatles

    1 the Beatles

  • Richard Crampton

    Myths of the Balkans e-edition

    The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804–1999 by Misha Glenny

    Explaining Yugoslavia by John B. Allcock

    The Balkans: A Short History by Mark Mazower

  • Darryl Pinckney

    Riffs

    Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray edited by Albert Murray and John F. Callahan

  • Daniel Mendelsohn

    Tragedy in Denver e-edition

    Tantalus

    Tantalus: Ten New Plays on Greek Myths by John Barton

  • J. M. Coetzee

    The Marvels of Walter Benjamin e-edition

    Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926 Edmund Jephcott, Harry Zohn, and others. by Walter Benjamin, edited by Marcus Bullock, edited by Michael W. Jennings. Translated from the German by Rodney Livingstone, Stanley Corngold,

    Selected Writings,Volume 2: 1927-1934 by Walter Benjamin, edited by Michael W. Jennings, edited by Howard Eiland, edited by Gary Smith. Translated from the German by Rodney Livingstone and others.

    The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, Translated from the German and French by Howard Eiland, by Kevin McLaughlin

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

    Disabled Lives: Who Cares? e-edition

    Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency by Eva Feder Kittay

    Life As We Know It:A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child by Michael Bérubé

    Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It by Joan Williams

  • Andrew Delbanco

    Night Vision e-edition

    The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling, edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier

  • John Leonard

    Mind Painting e-edition

    Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers

  • Tim Parks

    A Chorus of Cruelty e-edition

  • Ronald Dworkin

    A Badly Flawed Election

LETTERS

Contributors

Andrew Delbanco is Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies at Columbia. His new books, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be and The Abolitionist Imagination, will be published in April.
 (February 2012)

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His recent works include Early Autumn and The Fall of the House of Walworth. His new book Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002–2012 will be published in 2013.


J. M. Coetzee, the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Literature, is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

Pete Hamill worked for almost four decades on newspapers, and served as Editor-in-Chief of both the New York Post and the New York Daily News. He has published fifteen books, including eight novels, of which the most recent is Diego Rivera. (January 2001)

Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews and essays on literary and cultural subjects appear frequently in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. He is the author, most recently, of the collection Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include two memoirs, a translation of the complete works of C.P. Cavafy, and a study of Greek tragedy, Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays. He teaches at Bard College.

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

John Updike (1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death. His major work was the set of four novels chronicling the life of Harry “Rabbit: Angstrom, he two of which, Rabbit is Richand Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing and The Server.

Whitney Balliett’s most recent book is Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954—2001 (August 2003).

Richard Crampton is Professor of East European History and Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is the author of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, The Balkans Since the Second World War, and a number of histories of Bulgaria. (June 2005)

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (May 2009)